Monday, January 09, 2006

Counterfeit Week 2

So here we are..

Counterfeit this week featured a round up of our musical highlights of 2005. We celebrated the emergence of some great new bands with some equally great releases, as well as some of the most memorable shows we've seen to date. Each track of the evening represented a fantastic gig, a chance meeting, a drunken dance in the trashiest of indie clubs.. and an odd soundtrack to a great year. Here's to New Order in Hyde Park. Here's to talking to Carl Barat. Here's to musical soulmates, jesus.

The Counterfeit Mixed-Tape of the evening featured all matters of Love and Confusion. I do know that it is nice to construct a tape, describing the most euphoric, romantic sentiments. I know that although driving around with a lovelorn chap around Salford is all well and good but it's hardly realistic. In fact, it's fairly inaccessible when you live nowhere near Manchester. It's perhaps more interesting to make a tape that is more complicated and awkward. For instance, there is a variety of songs that tend to delve into something more sinister than a romantic car ride.

Songs like these are rife. Negativity is rife. Complication is rife. What happened to the days where you could just listen to music and something could be as easy as two verses and a chorus? Is music becoming needlessly complicated? Is musical appreciation becoming needlessly complicated? Are relationships just stupid? Or maybe I should just stop with the rhetorical questions.

Next week's show will feature an interview with one of the biggest acts of 2005, The Departure, another Counterfeit mixed-tape for your walkmans and a few other surprises. See you, 10pm on Monday.